Replication Study: Reducing Pain With Focused Music Listening

Participants listen to selected instrumental music excerpts presented via headphones during designated experimental trials.

Participants experience periods of silence with no music presented via headphones during designated control trials. This serves as the auditory control condition compared to Music Listening.

Participants actively synchronize movements (such as foot tapping and/or head nodding) by timing them with the rhythm of the presented music or with a pacing stimulus provided during silent trials.

Participants remain still and do not perform specific instructed synchronized movements during designated control trials. This serves as the motor task control condition compared to Active Sensorimotor Synchronization.